The Scottish Enlightenment
Subtitle: An Anthology (Canongate Classics, 80)
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: March 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 820
ISBN-13: 9780862417383
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; History of ideas, intellectual history; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; c 1700 to c 1800; Scottish Literature; Intellectual History; Literary Criticism; Philosophy; Literature: Classics; British Isles; Europe; History & Surveys - General; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: To understand the Scottish Enlightenment it is necessary both to grasp the concept of Enlightenment, and also to appreciate the fittingness of the application of the concept to eighteenth-century Scotland.